Miscommunication caused Barbados incident: Pak maneger
Pakistan cricket team’s manager Saleem Altaf on Monday played down the Barbados incident involving Shahid Afridi and Younis Khan and said after an in-house meeting the matter had been resolved.
“Naturally, the incident is unfortunate and unnecessary but it occurred as a result of some miscommunication —that is all; it was not such a big incident and has now been resolved,” Altaf said from Barbados.
He however made it clear that Afridi had apologised to Younis and the management for his behaviour and insisted the Board would continue to support Younis. “We are clear in our minds that it’s the captain’s decision to decide the batting order and the player has no choice in this. In this regard, Younis was right in asking Afridi to open the innings but unfortunately due to some communication gap the problem occurred,” he said.
Altaf said after the first Test, the PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan and he had held in-house meetings with captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and the players and made it clear to them this is something which should not have happened and they assured him such things would not be repeated.
“The touring disciplinary committee also held a meeting and the involved players appeared before it,” he said.
But Altaf was not willing to confirm if any fine or penalty had been imposed on the players. “That is something which is an in-house thing and we’ll not make it public,” he expressed.
“The main thing now is that we need to regroup as a team and do our best to level the series in Jamaica where we need to make a strong comeback,” he added.
“What is of concern to us is that we played with basically our second-string batting line-up and it failed badly and we need to work on that,” he noted.
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